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Cardinals emerge from break with 7-1 win
(Professional Sports ~ 07/16/10)
Carpenter allowed four hits in eight innings as St. Louis defeated the Dodgers
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Sound Start Musical Instruction has big plans for its future
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
Sound Start Musical Instruction has been open for nearly six weeks, but owners Chase Wright and Ian Bolton are already building their student base. Bolton and Wright are teaching about 40 students between the two of them, but they anticipate many more as they build their presence in the shallow pool of guitar instruction...
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7 companies submit economic analyses of proposed casino operations to state gaming commission
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Seven companies hoping to win permission to build Missouri's 13th casino submitted economic analyses of their proposed operations to the Missouri Gaming Commission on Thursday, spokeswoman LeAnn McCarthy announced.
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Cape Girardeau man seriously injured in Thursday morning crash
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
A 21-year-old Cape Girardeau man was seriously injured in a crash on Highway 34 when his car ran off the road. Shane Cather, 21, was driving near Burfordville around 2:15 a.m. Thursday when his car ran off the road and struck a fence, embankment and tree, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Cather was taken by private vehicle to Saint Francis Medical Center...
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Jackson residents bring out larger items for annual cleanup week
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Jackson residents cleaned house this week. They also cleaned garages, basements and attics. With the city sponsoring its annual Clean Up/Fix Up Week, large items that are normally not collected during trash service were placed curbside and picked up with regular household trash...
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A Rural Libranian's Thoughts on Bollinger County
(Submitted Story ~ 07/16/10)
The community I have called home for the past seven years has become a part of me just as I have merged within it. Marble Hill, located in Bollinger County Missouri, is now running through me. The town is where I am employed which allows me to shelter and feed my children. ...
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Baby Bird
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/16/10)
My nephew Hunter checkin' out the baby bird in our drive way.
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Bald Knob Cross advocate accused of child sexual abuse
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An outspoken pastor who led fundraising efforts for the restoration of a towering southern Illinois cross landmark was freed on reduced bond Friday and ordered confined to his home after being accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl...
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Southeast Missouri to be site of wild elk restoration
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Plans to bring wild elk to Missouri are back on track. The state Conservation Commission decided Friday to resume a planning process to place elk around the Peck Ranch Conservation Area in southern Missouri's Carter, Shannon and Reynolds counties...
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Nearly 200 partake in Church Women United luncheon in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
The local Church Women United organization put on its 41st Annual Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty (CROP) Sale and Luncheon Friday in the Centenary United Methodist Church Family Life Center. The women's group served approximately 195 people carry-out and sit-down lunches...
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Tea Party Endorses Parker for US Congress!
(Submitted Story ~ 07/16/10)
While most of Missouri's Tea Parties are reticent to offer endorsements, Tea Parties in other states have endorsed several winning freedom candidates. The Sikeston Tea Party has taken the admirable position of being the first to come forward and endorse Bob Parker, a true Constitutional Conservative, for Congress in the 8th District Republican race...
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Jackson man arrested for kidnapping his children in southwest Missouri
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
OZARK, Mo. (AP) - A Jackson man is charged with felony child abduction after allegedly kidnapping his children from a domestic violence shelter in southwest Missouri. Police say 39-year-old Scott Pikey also violated a protection order when he tracked down his ex-wife at a shelter in Ozark by using the GPS-enabled sensor in her car...
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Rare triplet calves born on Butler County farm
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
BUTLER COUNTY, Mo. -- Having been in the cattle business for nearly 45 years, Willard Abbott has had hundreds of new calves born on his Butler County farm, but none like those born on a cold, rainy March day. It was on the morning of March 21 when one of Abbott's Charolais cows delivered triplet heifers, all of which survived. ...
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Albino Deer
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/16/10)
Updated picture of the same albino deer with the right split ear spotted in Cape Girardeau, Mo. July 16,2010
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Albino Deer
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/16/10)
Updated picture of the Albino deer in Cape.
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Albino Deer
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/16/10)
An updated picture of the Albino Deer in Cape Girardeau. Taken July 15, 2010.
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State to maintain custody of neglected Stoddard County infant
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A judge found the neglect allegations against the parents of a now-4-month-old mentally disabled Dexter, Mo., infant to be true and retained jurisdiction over the child, who authorities say is thriving in foster care.
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Church Women United prepare for 41st annual CROP sale
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
For 41 years Church Women United members have gathered for a Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty -- or CROP -- sale in Cape Girardeau. The women have seen the times change, but haven't allowed that to stop them from putting on the sale and luncheon. Profits from the event over the years have gone toward the purchase of livestock, tools, seeds, veterinary supplies, wells, windmills and reforestation in needy countries...
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Race for the presiding commissioner: Financial adviser Hutson wants county run like business
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Chris Hutson believes Cape Girardeau County should be run like a business and hopes to use his financial knowledge and experience to do that if elected presiding commissioner. As one of six Republicans on the the Aug. 3 primary ballot, Hutson is a new face in county politics with a familiar name. His father, Charles Hutson, a Democrat, is retiring at the end of the year after nine terms as Cape Girardeau County circuit clerk...
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Colin McLain
(Editorial ~ 07/16/10)
Only a couple of generations ago, world travel was rare and often limited to those who were considered rich. In more recent times, world travel has become popular among young men and women who want to explore the planet, learn about other cultures and satisfy a certain quest for knowledge and understanding before settling down to jobs, families and other restrictive responsibilities. And they often manage to do so on a shoestring budget...
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Base votes on facts and issues
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/16/10)
"Throw out all the bums," "Fire Congress" and "Clean out the congressional house." In this election year, these are common phrases heard on the political landscape and in coffee shops across America. The anti-incumbent spirit that has spread like a fever has matched the tea party fervor and has resonated even in places not usually characterized by political chatter...
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It's time to restore the power
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/16/10)
Brad Sherman's presentation on "Restoring the Power" was informative and well-received. While working to pay taxes we have let our elected officials gradually turn our government more and more socialistic with disregard for our Constitution. President Obama promised he would transform our government and that he'd be ready to rule on Day One. Presidents lead. Kings and dictators rule...
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Speak Out 7/16/10
(Speak Out ~ 07/16/10)
WE are a secular society based in part on ethical principles common to many of the world's religions. ISN'T it strange that we can put a man into space and bail out big companies, but we can't put a cap on that oil spewing into the gulf? I just can't understand why that cannot be done...
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Prayer 7/16/10
(Prayer ~ 07/16/10)
For those who travel during summer vacations, we pray to you, O God. Amen.
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Over yonder
(Column ~ 07/16/10)
I've had a lifelong relationship with Highway 19, which weaves its way from the Arkansas border near Thayer all the way to Hannibal. But I didn't realize until last weekend how much there is to see if you take a few side trips off this scenic route...
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Best bet: Bruce Zimmerman at Port Cape
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
Bruce Zimmerman and the Water Street Band will play from 9 to 11 p.m. Sunday at Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant and Lounge. Zimmerman, a blues man and Cape Girardeau native, has been entertaining audiences Sunday nights at Port Cape, 19 N. Water St., for more than 20 years. ...
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Create something
(Column ~ 07/16/10)
Covering the arts and keeping up with the artists in town sometimes sucks me down the colorful rabbit hole of creativity. I slip to the other side and wander aimlessly around the art world until I wake up and realize I should stick to reality and writing...
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Wonder Woman's new look draws mixed reviews from fans, fashionistas
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
NEW YORK -- She's been ruined! Covered up! Depatriotized! You call that chic? And that's only what they're saying down here on Earth. Heaven knows what the gods are saying about Wonder Woman's new wardrobe change -- goodbye, star-spangled hot pants! -- a generational twist that has comic fans searching for meaning, and DC Comics searching for higher sales...
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ARTifacts 7/16/10
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
Arts and entertainment briefs
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Author's Corner: "Old Wayne"
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
Cletis R. Ellinghouse, a writer in Puxico, Mo., has released "Old Wayne," a book about the Civil War as experience in Wayne County. The book tells about Nathanial W. Watkins, a lawyer in Southeast Missouri at the time, and how he may have attempted to thwart President Lincoln's reconciliation agenda...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission to talk deed issues with SB40 board
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission will hear a request in regard to property deeds from the Cape County Board for Developmentally Disabled at 10 a.m. Thursday. The board, formerly known as the SB40 board, sent the commission a letter Tuesday requesting the commission take no action on accepting or recording deeds submitted to them on behalf of Cape Girardeau Sheltered Workshop, Inc., which does business as VIP Industries Inc., until the board could address the commission.
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Autopsy shows Ripley County fire victim was shot
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
CURRENT VIEW, Mo. -- Authorities were sifting through the rubble of a Current View home Wednesday searching for clues involving the death of Ripley County couple who died under suspicious circumstances.
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Poplar Bluff police bust alleged marijuana distribution ring
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff couple was charged Tuesday afternoon with operating what authorities describe as a multicounty marijuana distribution ring.
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Environmental groups denounce plan to use coal ash on levees
(State News ~ 07/16/10)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal plan to use ash waste from coal-fired power plants to shore up some Mississippi River levees drew objections Thursday from environmentalists who are worried that toxins in the ash might seep into the river and public water systems it serves...
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Police report 7/16/10
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/16/10)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests...
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Fire report 7/16/10
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/16/10)
Firefighters responded to the following calls Wednesday:...
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David Rea
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
David Lawrence Rea, 47, of Daisy died Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at his home. He was born Aug. 8, 1962, in Florissant, Mo., to Dale Leonard and Patricia Ann Moore Rea. David graduated from Hazelwood West High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1981 to 1984...
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Howard Hensley
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
Howard "Clif" Hensley, 84, of Centralia, Ill., passed away Thursday, July 15, 2010, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Centralia. Howard was born July 17, 1925, in Fornfielt, son of Marshall and Eva Davidson Hensley. He married Helen Ekin Hensley Sept. 27, 1950, in East Moline, Ill...
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Cleta Wilferth
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Cleta L. Wilferth, 86, of Leopold died Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at Heartland Care and Rehab in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 1, 1924, in Dongola, Mo., daughter of Grover Cleveland and Lillie May Zimmerman Lambert. She and Fred Wilferth Sr. were married March 24, 1943. He passed away Aug. 23, 1983...
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Wenona Harrison
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
Wenona Harrison, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born Feb. 20, 1920, at Leachville, Ark., to Guss Hill and Edith Masters Ridings. Survivors include two daughters, Karen (Daniel) Schlack of South Elgin, Ill., Susan (Ed) Hopkins of Vincennes, Ind.; two brothers, Dr. Harold Ridings of Cape Girardeau and Charles Ridings of Austin, Texas...
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Out of the past 7/16/10
(Out of the Past ~ 07/16/10)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A leading manufacturer of automobile rubber and plastic products in Japan, Toyoda Gosei Company Ltd., will soon begin construction on a $2 million to $3 million plant at the Perryville Industrial Park. Locomotive Number Five arrives in Jackson following a 24-hour delay; the vintage steam engine, and two passenger coaches, are towed the 18.2 miles from Delta to Jackson, where repairs and renovations will be completed for the scheduled start of the tourist passenger rail line this fall.. ...
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Mary Benefield
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
McCLURE, Ill. -- Mary Elizabeth Benefield, 76, of McClure died Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at her home. She was born Dec. 5, 1933, in Alexander County, Ill., to Raymond W. and Bertha Ann Groves Benefield. Mary was a 1952 graduate of McClure High School. She was a shoe cutter at Florsheim Shoe Co., and later was an in-home health care worker...
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Jack Chapman
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Jack Adkins Chapman, 87, of Chaffee passed away Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at Chaffee Nursing Center. He was born April 28, 1923, in Advance, Mo., son of George and Mellie Reed Chapman. Jack retired from Florsheim Shoe Co. in Cape Girardeau...
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Richard Eilers
(Obituary ~ 07/16/10)
Richard Francis Eilers, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at Ratliff Care Center. He was born May 2, 1934, in Glendale, Calif., to John Eilers and Jean Elizabeth Wells Eilers Russom. He and Barbara Jean Killion were married Aug. 28, 1958, in Glendale...
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Jackson police/fire reports 7/16/10
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/16/10)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Property damage Firefighters responded to the following calls Tuesday:...
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Candidates report fundraising totals for second quarter
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
State Rep. Clint Tracy collected more money for his campaign for Cape Girardeau County presiding commissioner during the second quarter of the year than all five of his Republican rivals combined. From April 1 to June 30, relying on contributions from major players in the Cape Girardeau business community, Tracy gathered $16,021 in cash contributions and a $2,000 in-kind contribution from DDI Media, a business name for Drury Displays Inc...
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Jackson opens tourney with win
(Community Sports ~ 07/16/10)
The Senior Babe Ruth team collected a five-inning victory
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Ariz. immigration law hearing ends with no ruling
(National News ~ 07/16/10)
PHOENIX -- Arizona's impending immigration law went before a federal judge for the first time Thursday, and attorneys for both sides sparred over who had the right to enforce immigration law: local officials or the federal government. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton didn't rule on whether to block the law from taking effect July 29, or whether to dismiss the lawsuit, one of seven. ...
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Experts work to free hull of 1700s ship buried at WTC site
(National News ~ 07/16/10)
NEW YORK -- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago -- landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the mud near ground zero...
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Swiss say they sought Polanski info before his release
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
LOS ANGELES -- Federal officials denied Thursday keeping Los Angeles prosecutors in the dark about refusing a Swiss request for sealed transcripts in the Roman Polanski case, a move that was pivotal to the Swiss refusal to extradite the filmmaker to the United States...
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Vatican revises rules on clerical abuse
(International News ~ 07/16/10)
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the statute of limitations for such crimes. Abuse victims said the rules are little more than administrative housekeeping since they made few substantive changes to current practice and that what is needed are bold new rules to punish bishops who shield pedophiles...
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Holocaust survivor's dance sparks controversy
(International News ~ 07/16/10)
JERUSALEM -- He's a Holocaust survivor dancing with his family on what easily could have been his own grave. A video clip of Adolek Kohn awkwardly shuffling and shimmying with his daughter and grandchildren to the sound of "I Will Survive" at Auschwitz and other sites where millions died during the Holocaust has become an Internet sensation...
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Missouri governor signs bill offering Ford Motor Co. tax break
(State News ~ 07/16/10)
PLEASANT VALLEY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon got a standing ovation Thursday from auto workers as he signed a tax break bill aimed at enticing Ford Motor Co. to continue making vehicles at a Kansas City-area plant. Employees of the Claycomo plant and some of their children joined the governor for the bill-signing ceremony at a nearby union hall...
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Illinois man arrested after Wednesday night car chase in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
An Illinois man led police on a brief chase through downtown Cape Girardeau Wednesday night, crashing his car twice in the process.
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BP chokes off the oil leak; now begins the wait
(National News ~ 07/16/10)
NEW ORLEANS -- BP choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday -- 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded -- then began 48 hours of watching to see whether the capped-off well would hold or blow a new leak...
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Work to be performed Sunday on Route K
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
The Missouri Department of Transportation traffic signal crew will repair a detector loop under the pavement at the intersection of Route K and Broadview Street in Cape Girardeau. Weather permitting, the work is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Sunday and will be completed around 4 a.m. Monday. Traffic will be reduced to one lane...
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Route P to be reduced next week for repaving
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Route P in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced to one lane for repaving. The section of road being patched is between Highway 25 and County Road 277. Repairs will run from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
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Highway 51 reduced for drainage repair
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Highway 51 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane for drainage repairs. Repairs on the stretch of road between Highway 34 and one-quarter mile north of Highway 34 are scheduled to be performed from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
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Route NN reduced next week for repaving
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Route NN in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced to one lane for repaving. The section of road being patched is between Route N and Highway 25. Work will start 7:30 a.m. and end 4 p.m. daily from Monday through Thursday.
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Echo 3 entertains with more than its arsenal of rock covers
(Entertainment ~ 07/16/10)
Tonight's show at the Pink Galleon by Southeast Missouri rock cover group Echo 3 is one people will have to see to believe, according to lead guitarist Toby Tyler. Tyler's guitar tricks and the group's one-handed drummer make people stop and stare, he said...
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157th District candidates share views at Cape forum
(Local News ~ 07/16/10)
Republican candidates in the 157th District primary shared their views on taxes, immigration, budget issues and more Thursday night at a forum sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Pachyderm Club at Dexter Bar-B-Que in Cape Girardeau. Gerald Adams and Donna Lichtenegger answered seven questions created by the club's committee members...
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